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From YouTube: Tell Arlington's Story: Bill Bozman
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A
I
wanted
to
tell
you
the
face:
Bissell
story:
this
happened
during
the
period
of
math
Virginia's,
massive
resistance
to
integration,
mid,
mid
50s,
I,
think
and
the
League
of
Women
Voters
conducted
candidates,
meetings
for
the
public,
so
that
people
could
hear
the
people
who
the
individuals
who
were
running
for
office
and
these
meetings
had
always
been
integrated.
Nobody
made
a
thing
at
all
until
this
period
of
massive
resistance.
A
When
the
issue
was
bubbling
up,
there
was
a
group
in
Arlington
that
said
these
candidates
meetings
need
to
be
segregated
and
the
League
of
Women
Voters
was
was
puzzled
as
to
what
to
do
and
Edie
Campbell
encourage
them
to
test
whether
or
not
these
meetings
had
to
be
segregated
and
the
bike.
The
league
sent
a
letter
to
the
state
attorney
general
said:
do
we
have
to
segregate
these
meetings
and
he
wrote
back?
He
said.
A
Yes,
you
do
so
Edie
Campbell,
again
couraged
the
league
to
test
this,
and
there
was
a
member
of
the
league
named
faith
Bissell.
She
was
a
Quaker
and
she
agreed
that
she
would
test
the
case
and
an
ED
on
the
advice
of
Edie
Campbell,
a
prominent
Arlington
attorney
and
candidate
for
Congress.
At
one
time
they
asked
they
decided
that
faith
would
sit
in
the
section
that
was
designated
for
for
blacks
and
she
did,
and
by
arrangement
Ellen
who
was
conducting
the
meeting,
went
to
faith
and
said:
would
you
please
move?
A
This
is
sectioned
off
for
black
citizens
and
faith
said
no
I
will
not
move
all
pre-arranged
and
then
again
by
prearrangement.
She
was
arrested
by
that,
whether
that
was
the
Sheriff's
Office
of
the
county.
Police
I,
don't
know,
but
she
was
arrested
and
I
believe,
fine
and
refused
to
pay
the
fine
and
appealed
the
action
with
Ed
Campbell's
help
to
a
court
of
record
and
they
were
hopefulness
could
go
to
the
Supreme
Court,
probably
the
state
Supreme
Court,
but
maybe
the
federal
I'm,
not
sure
and
I'm,
not
an
attorney.
A
A
What
happened
was
that
the
judge
threw
the
case
out
of
court,
because
faith
Bissell
could
not
prove
that
she
was
like
because
she
clinical
back
enough
generations
dude
prove
that
they
were
all
white
in
Virginia.
If
it's
one
thirty-second
non-white,
then
you're,
not
right.
That
was
back
in
those
days.
That's
right!
So
I
was
there.
I.
Remember
her
face
was
thrown
out
of
court
because
she
couldn't
prove
she
was
white.